The screen is certainly one of the most important parts of a smartphone because, if it breaks, you really don't know what to invent to be able to use the phone itself, access memory and recover data. When the screen is broken there are more or less miracles in which to hope depending on the type of breakage, it may be that the touchscreen contact no longer works but the screen is still visible or that the screen is completely broken and turned off and even if it is smartphone can be turned on, there is no possibility to use it, unlock it and launch some app.
In this article we try to see some tricks to be able to at least access the phone's memory with a broken screen and to be able to recover or save smartphone data, with advice also on how to prevent any problem by preparing Android to support a failure of this type that can always happen .
The main requirement to be able to access the phone memory from a PC is, in fact, to have the USB debugging option activated.
USB Debugging is the most important option of that Android developer menu that must be enabled because it is however hidden by default on every mobile phone.
Without USB Debugging it is not possible to use the PC connection apps and even that ADB (Android Debug Bridge) command that allows you to perform troubleshooting operations on an Android mobile phone from the PC.
We have already written a guide on how to download and use ADB and Fastboot, so here we are going to see how to unlock the Android screen from ADB.
If, therefore, the phone is not broken and there is only a problem with the screen, if the USB Debug option is activated on that smartphone, then you can use this command to be launched from the dos prompt on PC to unlock the PIN Android phone:
adb shell input text XXXX && adb shell input keyevent 66
Instead of XXXX you must write the release pin.
If on the phone The touchscreen is broken but the screen is still visible, you can try to unlock the combination with sequence and also use the mobile phone by connecting a mouse .
This doesn't work with all smartphones, but it may be worth a try.
The only thing you need is a USB OTG cable to connect the mouse to the mobile phone, which also allows you to use a USB stick on an Android smartphone.
On some smartphones there is also the possibility of using a USB MHL to HDMI converter, so that you can use that of a TV as a screen.
To unlock a Samsung smartphone, you can also use the FindMyphone app detection tool, by accessing this site with the Samsung login.
Without buying anything, you can access the phone's memory from the phone's recovery console .
This procedure is more complicated and we have seen how to access recovery from the Android reset and restore procedure even if the mobile phone or tablet does not start.
Clearly if the screen remains black and broken there is not much to do, but you can still connect the phone to the computer in order to be able, if the smartphone has a recovery console, use the ADB commands to save all the data (i.e. the adb backup -all command).
It is important to remember that it is possible to install applications on the phone even if the screen is broken, if the smartphone can at least turn on and be unlocked from the lock screen.
In fact, every smartphone that is turned on can receive installation commands from the Google Play Store (in fact, just log in with the same Google account as the phone to the Play Store site to search and install applications from the computer).
As an app you can then use Airdroid or Vysor .
With Airdroid you can manage your phone via wifi from your PC, even if to work it would need that the phone is automatically connected to the home wifi network and that the Airdroid app is already present.
Alternatively, you can try Vysor to view the phone screen on the PC .
Vysor can also work without installing apps from the Google Play store, so it can still be effective for using your smartphone with a broken screen.
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